March 2018 Channel Update

February is now in the books and we had a pretty good month. I launched to new shows GG Blizz and Byte size news. These shows are on the channel every other Monday from each other. I also just finished up my Bear With Me lets play.

Bear with me was such a good game, it was a lot better than I thought it would be just being some indie game on steam. This game made me cry twice, (though that seems to be a running theme lately). I would highly recommend anyone to play threw it, or you can watch my play threw conveniently in a playlist below.

Now that Bear With Me is done that means I need another game to play, I have decided on Rime. I don't know much about the game other than it is a action puzzle game. I normally try and find games I haven't herd too much about. The first episode should be out on Friday and this should take me threw March.

With that all out of the way I probably should touch on the monetization issue. As of Febuary 20th my channel and a lot of other channels lost their Youtube Partnership due to the new policy for becoming a youtube partner. I wont be making any money off ads and I'm no longer part of FullScreen. Though they are still letting channels that were effected still use some of their tools. Ive gone over this in depth more in another blog post.  Over all this wont really change anything on this channel I just wanted to give you all a update.

This month should be a good month filled with plenty of content grate gaming and plenty of tech news. As always if things change I will let you know here and on social media.

Thank You Fullscreen

At the end of last month YouTube announced changes to their partner program, and as a result anyone with lass than 1,000 subs and 4,000 watch hours in the last 12 months are losing monintization. This goes into effect February 20th. Also on that date my fullscreen contract will be terminated. 

With that being said, nothing is going to change on the channel. Being such a small channel I never have made much money. Over the 3 years or so I’ve been part of the partner program and fullscreen I’ve made $8 and that’s thanks to fullscreen. 

I also have to give fullscreen credit for how they have handled this whole thing, this really out of their hands and they have been nice enough to let me and others effected by this still have access to some of their tools. For me my most used tool is epidemic sound, which is were I get all the music I use in my videos. This has been a cost saver for me as a creator. For the views I normally get on a video the service would cost me around $15 a month. For fullscreen to continue to let creators who they will no longer make any money on after the 20th is extremely kind. 

Now this isn’t another YouTube the company is being terrible and here’s why post, I already did one of those and you can check that out here. This post is to thank say thank you to fullscreen. They have been a grate MCM and have always been helpful when I’ve had issues with YouTube or with some tool on their site. I’ve learned how to be a better creator thanks to their tips and community. My channel only had 10 subs when I joined I’m now 332 strong and growing thanks to the fullscreen community. I truly feel that is fullscreen’s best tool, their community. 

It was a post that Panser/ Tradechat made on her Facebook page now 3 years or so ago about fullscreen, so I have to thank her for that. I also want to thank pinsky for pretty much always being around in the community and being a face to a otherwise faceless company. 

This isn’t really the end of anything really I will still have access to some of the fullscreen tools and access to the community. I just wont have a contract with them until I meet the the new guild lines for the YouTube creator program and reapply with fullscreen, which I will do the second I can. I just wanted to take a moment to thank them and making the upside down topsy turvy world of YouTube just a little bit of a better place.